Visualizing Palestine: Data Visualization and Difficult Histories

‘The Question of Palestine’ seminar series

Following up on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East/SWANA region, the Center for Contemporary and Digital History presents an online seminar series on “The Question of Palestine”.

In this series, we invite academics and subject matter experts to present their research and work which speaks on the historical context of the conflict in the region and its implications on the different practices from migration studies to cultural heritage, archival practices, filmmaking, feminist theory and data visualization.

• Session 1 – The ‘Peace’ to Come? The Abraham Accords as a Model
• Session 2 – Jewels that Resist: Against Colonial Geographies, a conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
• Session 3 – History of Palestinian Women Through Film and Photography
• Session 4 – Visualizing Palestine: Data Visualization and Difficult Histories

Session 4 – Visualizing Palestine: Data Visualization and Difficult Histories

Speaker: Jessica Anderson, deputy director of Visualizing Palestine

Chair: assist .prof. Frédéric Clavert & Dr. Myriam Dalal

Moderator: Dr. Aida Horaniet Ibañez

Visualizing Palestine uses data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. Jessica Anderson, a human rights researcher based in Michigan, has been working with Visualizing Palestine since 2013 to develop visual resources to equip activists and educators. Alongside Aline Batarseh and Yosra El-Gazzar, Jessica is a co-editor of the book Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, published by Haymarket Books in 2024.

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